Which is better for ripping mp3's: EAC or iTunes? Opinions?

I don't use iTunes for anything. I tried it, but it just wasn't my thing. I like EAC a lot, and it's easy to use. I think NorthernSoul and/or maybe Sketch had some good links a while back that really produce some nice results.

Thanks, I will search for those links.

I'm sort of new to sharing music. I got a sweet laptop this year -- before that, I had what you could only technically call a computer. It had all the necessary components, but it didn't, well, compute.

Also, I had a bad experience in college when I got kicked off of napster by dr dre.

Here's your link. Couple posts down, Sketch provides the two sites I used to figure it out.

Did you get booted by Eminem Doctor Dre or Ed Lover Doctor Dre?

Thanks -- looking forward to setting this up. I'm thinking about joing ubernet, too.

Do it. All the kool kids are.

quite frankly, i think eac is very overrated. 90% of cd rippers will do a fine job and never give you any problems. unfortunately you need eac to join ubernet, so mac people like me cant get in. i say, use any cd ripper you want but make sure you encode it with lame. for that there are no substitutes.

i use cdex & am quite happy with it.

Assuming your discs are qual, Northern Soul is probably on the mark. EAC really separates itself from the pack with its secure mode, which will recheck a sector if there's a read error. The real benefits of this are on scratched discs (of which I have many). I'm not sure about other rippers, but EAC provides very detailed logs which is used to prove one's uber-ness.

I have installed EAC and LAME, and am on my way to joining ubernet. They are really strict, so hopefully it will be worth it. They remind me of that soup nazi episode of seinfeld. I think it would be funny if their denial email said "NO UBERNET FOR YOU!"

Thanks for the help all.



Not sure what you mean -- I got booted for uploading chronic 2000.

If Uber is so obsessed with quality, why don't they use a superior compression method like Vorbis?

If I'm not mistaken Ubernet accepts Ogg files at quality level 6 or higher, as well as flac.

My bad. I thought they required all files to be encoded in LAME, and therefore only allowing MP3s.

LAME is the only MP3 encoder they accept, but yeah they'll do ogg and FLAC. LAME's alt-present-standard is the best compromise between sound quality and file size I've found.